Banning Cellphones

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Comment by Bill Ferriter on April 11, 2009 at 5:34pm: You know, Patrick....

I don't know that you need "training" to incorporate cell phones into your classroom. Cell phones are really nothing more than another tool----like a microphone or a laptop or a dictionary or a stopwatch. No one has to be trained to use tools like that.

Your first sentence was the most interesting to me, though. At what point to teacher leaders have to accept responsibility for changing schools? Should we be tolerant of an existence that we know is leaving our children poorly prepared for the future?

This is one I'm torn on...I know that change---especially trying to drive change from the classroom----is hard. But to accept a "status quo" that is unacceptable seems to be a mistake too.

Your thoughts?
Bill

Comment by Patrick Kutkey on April 11, 2009 at 3:49pm: Okay, fine. But the majority of our curriculums are being taught the way they were 10 - 20 years ago. I'm tech savvy, but I'm not sure I want to open the can of worms to teach with cell phones. Where to begin? Who's going to train me? How am I going to adapt everything? It's a tall order.